Bonita Springs is where most Florida citrus industry activities will take place this week. For starters, Florida Citrus Mutual will host its Citrus Industry Annual Conference there from Wednesday through Friday. The Florida Citrus Commission and the Citrus Research and Development Foundation will hold meetings at the site of the Mutual conference. Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff reports. Download Audio Register …
Citrus Geneticist Discusses The Path To HLB Resistance
In the first of these reports, University of Florida cell geneticist Jude Grosser says genetic efforts to produce HLB-resistant trees probably won’t produce results for a decade. But he says in the second report that a scientist could “get lucky” and find a quicker path to disease resistance. In the third report, he addresses the process of getting resistant trees …
Weekly Livestock Market Report
Here are the cattle market numbers for the week ending June 4th put together by the livestock market news service for the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. AL: Download Audio FL: Download Audio GA: Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Allows Viable Research in the Cattle IndustryFebruary 6, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Track Record Well Received By LegislatorsJanuary …
Vilsack Announces Purchase of Up to $6 Million of Fresh Tomatoes
WASHINGTON, June 4, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced USDA’s intention to purchase up to $6 million of fresh tomatoes for federal food nutrition assistance programs. “USDA has been carefully monitoring the situation in Florida in order to determinate how we can help growers get through the very difficult situation caused by the freeze earlier this year,” said …
Citrus Expo: Plan Now To Stay For Day Two
Here are just a few reasons you won’t want to miss the second day (Aug. 19) of Citrus Expo 2010: Day-two seminars will include key feature presentations with important information every grower needs to know about controlling the latest threat to Florida’s groves – citrus black spot. This year’s seminar series has been planned as a complete day-and-a-half package. To best benefit …
Citrus Research Panel $2.8 Million Short; Seeks FCC Help
Two recent gubernatorial vetoes of funding legislation have left the Citrus Research and Development Foundation’s budget underfunded. In the first report, foundation chief operating officer Dan Gunter explains the situation and says the foundation will ask the Florida Citrus Commission to make up the funding shortfall. Download Audio In the second report, Gunter says reducing citrus greening research is not …
AL NRCS Updates Rules for CSP
On Thursday USDA announced they had published the final regulations governing the Conservation Stewardship Program and John Curtis, Resource Conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Alabama, says there have been a few changes. Download Audio To learn more about CSP click Here Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Allows Viable Research in the Cattle IndustryFebruary 6, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement …
Positive Peanut Stocks and Processing Numbers and
Today Tyron Spearman has the latest peanut stocks and processing numbers along with a story about how peanuts are being banned again on certain airline flights. Report: Download Audio Banned: Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Allows Viable Research in the Cattle IndustryFebruary 6, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Track Record Well Received By LegislatorsJanuary 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board …
Cattle Marketing Tips
Terry Harris, USDA Director of the Federal-State Market News Service in both Florida and Georgia, says there is one rule of thumb he uses to help avoid extremes when marketing cattle. Download Audio News post sponsor: AGROTAIN® controls nitrogen loss for higher yields. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Allows Viable Research in the Cattle IndustryFebruary 6, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board …